THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN ROMANTICISM Edited by PAUL HAMILTON OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS C o n t e n t s List of Figures ix List of Contributors xi Introduction 1 Pa u l H a m il t o n PART I LANGUAGES French 1. Pre-Romantic French Thought 17 C a r o l in e W a r m a n 2. Literary History and Political Theory in Germaine de Staël’s Idea of Europe 33 B ia n c a m a r ia F o n t a n a 3. François-René de Chateaubriand: Migrations and Revolution 52 Je a n -M a r ie Ro u l in 4. Stendhal 69 F r a n c e s c o M a n z in i 5. The Novel and the (Il)legibility of History: V ictor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, and Alexandre Dumas 88 Br a d l e y St e p h e n s 6. Romantic Drama: The Mask of Genius 105 S o t ir io s Pa r a s c h a s 7. French Romantic Poetry 122 K a t h e r in e Lu n n -R o c k l if f e 8. Frenetic Romanticism 140 Francesco Man z ini Vi CONTENTS German 9. Johann Georg Hamann: Metacritique and Poesis in Counter- Enlightenment 165 A l e x a n d e r R e g ie r 10. Freedom, Reason, and Art in Idealist and Romantic Philosophy 184 A n d r e w B o w ie 11. Friedrich von Hardenberg (Pseudonym Novalis) 202 W m . A r c t a n d e r O ’Br ie n 12. Jena 1789-1819: Ideas, Poetry, and Politics 219 M a i k e O e r g e l 13. Gender and Genre in the Works of German Romantic Women Writers 240 A s t r id W e ig e r t 14. The Scepticism of Heinrich von Kleist 256 T im M e h ig a n 15. Friedrich Hölderlins Romantic Classicism 274 R ü d ig e r G ö r n e r 16. Goethe the Writer 293 A n g u s N ic h o l l s 17. Goethes Figurative Method 315 St e f a n H. U h l ig 18. Heidelberg, Dresden, Berlin, Vienna 340 D e n n is F. M a h o n e y Hungarian 19. Hungarian Romanticism: Reimagining (Literary) History 357 R ic h a r d A c z e l Italian 20. The Task of Italian Romanticism: Literary Form and Polemical Response 377 Jo s e p h L u z z i CONTENTS vii 21. Voice, Speaking, Silence in Leopardi’s Verse 390 M ichael Caesar 22. Leopardi as a Writer of Prose 405 Franco D’Intino 23. ‘European Man and Writer’: Romanticism, the Classics, and Political Action in the Exemplary Life of Ugo Foscolo 426 Giuseppe G azzola 24. Manzoni's Persistence 446 Jonathan W hite Spanish 25. Personal Demons and the Spectre of Tradition in Spanish Romantic Drama 471 D e r e k F l i t t e r Russian 26. Russian Literature between Classicism and Romanticism: Poetry, Feeling, Subjectivity 493 A n d r e w Ka h n 27. Alexander Pushkin as a Romantic 512 Luba Golburt 28. The Geography of Russian Romantic Prose: Bestuzhev, Lermontov, Gogol, and Early Dostoevsky 533 K a t y a H o k a n s o n Polish 29. Polish Romanticism 557 Monika Coghen Scandinavian 30. Scandinavian Romanticism 579 Klaus M üller-W ille v iii CONTENTS Greek 31. The Romantic Construction of Greece 601 Roderick Beaton PART II DISCOURSES 32. Geographies of Historical Discourse 621 R o b e r t o D a i n o t t o 33. Histories of Geography 644 P a u l S t o c k 34. Romantic Political Thought 660 D o u g l a s M o g g a c h 35. Science and the Scientific Disciplines 684 Benjamin Dawson 36. Life and Death in Paris: Medical and Life Sciences in the Romantic Era 711 L e o n C h a i 37. Religion 730 Thomas Pfau 38. Theatre, Drama, and Vision in the Romantic Age: Stages of the New 752 D iego Sag lia 39. Identity Crises: Celebrity, Anonymity, Doubles, and Frauds in European Romanticism 771 Angela Esterhammer 40. Theories of Language 788 Jan Fellerer 41. Europe’s Discourse of Britain 807 Patrick Vincent Index 825.